About

Ghurhu Gurusamy is a highly skilled and experienced Sr. IT consultant with a broad scope of expertise in administering RedHat/CentOS servers, IT infrastructure automation, DevOps, AWS, VMware, and Network Security. With over 14 years of relevant experience, he is a diligent professional who focuses on optimizing system performance and maintaining them in accordance with established policies, process, procedures, and service level agreements. Currently working as a Senior Software Support Engineer at Walmart, Ghurhu has previously worked with Sanmina-SCI Technology India Private Limited as a DevOps Engineer and Symantec as a Release Engineer. At Symantec, a Fortune 500 company providing security products and solutions, Ghurhu drove a UK process as an IT infrastructure and Linux consultant. He deployed to cloud and legacy servers using DevOps tools like Ansible, Puppet in coordination with the developers and automated deployment tasks using Ansible playbooks and python/bash scripts. He also worked extensively on AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, ELB, AutoScalingGroups, Route 53, IAM, and was responsible for supporting production infrastructure based on AWS S3, AWS VPC. Ghurhu managed various repositories such as YUM, CVS, Git, Stash, and had hands-on experience in VMWare VSphere tools. He also had working knowledge on ITIL tools - ProJIRA, ServiceNow, Marval MSM, Atlassian tools, and networking fundamentals – configuring L2 Managed Switches (VLANs, bond interfaces, static routes, etc.). Ghurhu mentored newbies, monitored their performances, and planned out transitions. Ghurhu holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Applications from Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College and a Master's degree in Business Administration and Management, General from ITM. He has a tech stack that includes DevOps, AWS, Ansible, infra, Python, and Puppet. Ghurhu is highly respected by management and peers for innovation, resourcefulness, and integrity, as well as the ability to resolve issues quickly and deliver genuine results.